Great pay and benefits; unrealistic deadlines and stress; possible future layoffs - Engineer Gulfstream Employee Review

3.0
15 Nov 2021
Recommend
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Pros

Pay is usually the best compared to majority of companies. Sometimes, even overtime is paid (as straight time) for exempt employees! Benefits are pretty good too (in paper): such as 4-10 work weeks, separate sick days (which Gulfstream calls PTO, and is separate from vacation), 6% match for 401k, etc. Having a Chick-fil-a and cafeteria in the main campus is good. Aircraft launch events and family day are pretty elaborate.

Cons

Both sales and upper management set very unrealistic deadlines for engineers, thus creating a lot of stress, potential for errors and eliminating the benefits such as Friday offs. Employees (even new ones) are asked by middle and lower management, who get pressure from upper management, to work around 55 hours/week (which is still not enough for the deadlines presented). While Gulfstream is on a massive hiring drive to solve this issue, this could also mean massive layoffs once the brunt of the work is done: this has happened before. Micromanagement seems to be inevitable as a result of aggressive deadlines. The promise of good work-life balance is slowly fading away.

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5.0
31 May 2026
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Pros

-Work in an air conditioned hangar! -All the tools and support needed to do the job -Excellent training available -Good safety culture -Fairly easy work -Lots of opportunities to grow

Cons

Big corporate politics at times. Some people just love to point fingers. Rules that are very excessive due to incompetence, instead of just firing morons.

2.0
22 Apr 2026
Recommend
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Pros

Rather decent front loaded time off. 4 day work weeks. A pretty decent off shift incentive.

Cons

Management does not care about their people. They are so far removed from what’s going on on the floor and too focused on passing the buck to someone else for their screw ups. People are placed in positions they should not be in simply because they know someone or they kiss up to someone. The people on the floor have very little fixed wing experience yet act as if they know everything. The only path they create for people to move up is A&P and even then they just want you to stay a mechanic. They neglect to realize that people stay with a company for the culture as well as leave because of it.

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